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atoms are held together by some kind of "gravitational force". In particular, since 1758 Scottish chemist William Cullen in his lectures used what he called "affinity diagrams" to represent forces supposedly existing between pairs of molecules in a chemical reaction. In a 1789 book by William Higgins similar diagrams were used to represent forces within molecules. These and some other contemporary diagrams had no relation to chemical bonds: the latter

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